lennaart on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:06:53 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Are we in 1935 Germany or 21st Century Netherlands? |
On Mon 27/06/11 16:57 , Florian Cramer wrote:: > I would put it differently: It's a politics of conservative > resentment mixed with politbureau capitalism. Ramsey Nasr put it actually quite nicely in his speech on Monday - loosely translated: "Combine the market with resentment and you get the recipe for the policy of the current Dutch government" Dutch text: http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2676/Cultuur/article/detail/2458831/201 1/06/28/Oproep-van-Ramsey-Nasr-aan-Mark-Rutte.dhtml Except that this market is indeed far from a free market. Fernand Braudel's idea that the accumulation of capital inevitably distorts so-called free markets chimes nicely with the contemporary idea that certain - mostly financial - institutions are now "too big to fail", all in the name of "maintaining confidence" (of ratings agencies and other big financial institutions of course). I think what's happening in the Netherlands is that the language of resentment is deployed in the interest of indeed a kind of monopoly capitalism, but a monopoly capitalism in which the state plays only a subsidiary role: to extract value from the general population in order to keep those ships afloat that are "too big to fail". Everyone else can get eff'ed. Len # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org